Tiny tortures: a miniature copy of The Booke of
Martyrs, a 1627 version of John Foxe's Actes and
Monuments (1563), by John Taylor, sold for £16,500 at auction
in Macclesfield, last week. The miniature volume, abridged in
couplets, measures 15/8×1¼ inches, and is less than one
inch thick. It was discovered in storage, after 40 years